University of Central Florida Athletics issued the following announcement on Sept. 19.
The UCF women's golf team checked in at number six in the initial Golfweek Top-25 rankings, released on Saturday. The ranking is the highest in program history.
Individually, UCF's Tunrada Piddon and Camille Banzet are ranked as the 25th and 26th highest golfers in the nation.
The Knights are coming off a solid opening week that saw them finish tied for fifth place overall at the Cougar Classic with a score of 861(-3). At fifth place and with scores of 289-284-288=861(-3), the Knights tied North Carolina and placed higher than No. 23 Vanderbilt and No. 22 Maryland in their first event of the season.
In 2020-21, for the third time in five seasons, the Knights earned an NCAA Regional bid after finishing fourth in the American Athletic Conference Championship. The Knights' top finish of the spring came in the final tournament of the season, winning the Brickyard Invitational. UCF women's golf earned a pair of conference honors as Tunrada Piddon and Ana Laura Collado were named All-American Athletic Conference, each for the first time in their careers. UCF entered the NCAA Louisville Regional ranked No. 34, where they shot a +17 across the three-round tournament, finishing tied for 8th and missing advancing to the National Championship by two strokes.
Golfweek Women's Team Collegiate Rankings
Rank Name
1 Arkansas
2 Baylor
3 Oklahoma State
4 Florida
5 Georgia
6 UCF
7 North Carolina
8 Texas Tech
9 TCU
10 Vanderbilt
11 Texas A&M
12 Campbell
13 Clemson
14 Oklahoma
15 Miami
16 South Carolina
17 Michigan
18 Sam Houston State
19 Tulsa
20 Mississippi State
21 Wisconsin
22 Furman
23 Michigan State
24 Purdue
25 Jacksonville State
Original source can be found here.
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